Arena chickens sometimes fail to spawn

Age of Empires II: DE II - Report a Bug
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:play_button: GAME INFORMATION

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  • GAME BUILD #: 162286
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

:play_button: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

:backhand_index_pointing_down: DESCRIBE THE ISSUE IN DETAIL (below). LIMIT TO ONE BUG PER THREAD.

:play_button: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

:backhand_index_pointing_down: How often does the issue occur? CHOSE ONE; DELETE THE REST !

  • Less than 25% of the time / matches I play (RARELY)

:play_button: REPRODUCTION STEPS

:backhand_index_pointing_down: List CLEAR and DETAILED STEPS we can take to reproduce the issue ourselves… Be descriptive!

Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. set up a team game on Arena

  2. generate a map that spawns chickens or rabbits

  3. check each player for missing chickens

:play_button: EXPECTED RESULT

:backhand_index_pointing_down: What was SUPPOSED to happen if the bug you encountered were not present?

All players should have the same number of chickens

:play_button: IMAGE

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:play_button: GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

:backhand_index_pointing_down: Attach a SAVE GAME (.aoe2spgame) or GAME RECORDING (.aoe2record) of the match where you encountered the issue. Link it below if using an external file ser vice.

In the first rec, Purple is missing chickens.

Here is an additional rec from a different map (I forgot it was Mongolia) where Blue is missing some rabits), I thought I had collected more than one map demonstrating the bug, but I guess not. Here it is anyways:

Bugged rabits MP Replay v101.103.31214.0 @2026.01.22 182856 .aoe2record (1.3 MB)